The Human Experience 2
The Lost Children of Peru
Prompt: Imagine you are a wealthy doctor in the United States. You make a lot of money, living in a big house, and drive a luxury car. Every other doctor in your hospital is really happy with their lives.
You need to decide between working at your hospital and making money vs. moving to a small village in Peru to work in a clinic for disabled children, where you would not make very much, if any, money.
What do you decide to do and why?
The Human Experience 1
Living Homeless in New York City
Prompt: Write from the perspective of Jeffrey Azize. What makes you want to live homeless on the streets of New York City? (Are you crazy???) What did you learn and what freedoms did the experience teach you were the most important to you?
Poverty, money — and love
Due Monday 4/11/2011.
Today we watched Jessica Jackley, the founder and CEO of kiva.org, give a speech at TED. You can watch her presentation again at
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jessica_jackley_poverty_money_and_love.html
You can also read more information about microfinance at
Respond:
What do you think about kiva.org as a model for helping impoverished people around the world? How is this form of giving better for the donor (us)? How is this form of giving better for the recipient entrepreneur?
Optional: LET’S GIVE!
Browse kiva.org (you don’t need to sign in). Read some stories. Whose story is the most compelling to you? Why? How do their needs relate to our Four Freedoms?
Breakfast
8:00 am. No big deal.
Football Linemen Donates Stem Cells to Save Stranger’s Life
Due Wednesday, March 30, 2011:
Today in class we read an inspiring true story about the possibilities of stem cell research and of people’s endless capacity for compassion.
Choose at least one of the following options:
A– As a patient dying from cancer (non-Hodgkins lymphoma), Warren Sallach’s likeliness of survival are very grim without proper treatment such as a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.
Use empathy to write a blog entry from Warren Sallach’s perspective. What was Sallach thinking when he found out about a stranger who was willing to go through the process of donating stem cells to save his life?
B– Matt Hoffman is a gifted college All-American football player with hopes of joining the NFL. However, he forgoes his championship game in order to donate stem cells to save a stranger’s life.
Use empathy to write a blog entry from Matt Hoffman’s perspective. What was Hoffman thinking when he decided to pass up one of the most important football games of his life in order to help a stranger. What were his motivations?
Slumdog Millionaire Entry #2
Choose at least one of the following options:
A– During a pivotal scene in the show, “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”Host Prem Kapur tries to feed Jamal the wrong answer to one of the questions.
Use empathy to write a blog entry from Prem Kapur’s from perspective. What was he thinking during this exchange? What was motivation for his actions?
B– Near the end of the film, Salim let’s Latika leave capture and urges her to go find Jamal. Salim tells her that he “will handle”, notorious gangster, Javed.
Use Empathy to write a blog entry from Salim’s perspective in which you explain your actions to the world.
Slumdog Millionaire Entry #1
Which of our Four Freedoms (Fear, Want, Speech, and Religion) was displayed the most during this film? Explain yourself using evidence from your note catcher and your memory the film.
Half the Sky – Chapter 1
Emancipating Twenty-First-Century Slaves
In the first chapter of Half the Sky, we read a story about two generations of sexual slavery – Meena (mother) and Naina (daughter). It took dangerous years for Meena to rescue her children from prostitution.
Respond: Compare the state of sexual slavery today with the horrible slavery that existed 200 years ago. What optimism do you draw from stories such as Meena and Naina’s?
Half the Sky – Introduction
Today, we read/listened to the introduction The Girl Effect from Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book Half the Sky.
Examine Srey Rath’s story-
How does her story inspire other girls in similar situations? How does her story inspire you to support “The Girl Effect?”
The Girl Effect
Go to the website: http://girleffect.org
Watch the video again.
Respond –
What is your reaction to this video? Examine how the video represents information and conveys its message.
VPA Four Freedoms 